174.246.151.223:2847 open socks4 proxy was used on 28 November for a
Hipcrime attack on nanae. And I got the port number by Googling so it
must have been open and was probably abused before that date.

It was used late North American Monday for a Hipcrime attack on
24hoursupport.helpdesk and the same open proxy was still there Tuesday
at 10:11 GMT.

At one time, RCN (formerly Erols) had the famous Afterburner on its
abuse desk. Now, it seems to have Dave Null.

Remember - go to RCN for your net-abuse needs. You put up a phishing
page? It will still be up on Valentine Day. You can get Giganews with
only IP authentication through RCN.

--
pannikins.  From  the table  at
Winston's  left, a  little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and
continuously,  a  harsh gabble  almost like  the quacking  of a duck, which
pierced the general uproar of the room.
     'How is the Dictionary getting on?' said Winston, raising his voice to
overcome the noise.
     'Slowly,' said Syme. 'I'm on the adjectives. It's fascinating.'
     He had brightened up immediately at the mention of Newspeak. He pushed
his  pannikin aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his
cheese  in the other, and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak
without shouting.
     'The  Eleventh Edition  is the  definitive edition,'  he said.  'We're
getting  the language into  its final shape -- the shape it's going to have
when  nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like
you  will have to  learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our
chief  job  is inventing new  words. But not a  bit of it! We're destroying
words  --  scores of them,  hundreds of them,  every day. We're cutting the
language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won't contain a single word
that will become obsolete before the year 2050.'
     He  bit  hungrily into his bread  and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls,
then  continued  speaking, with a  sort of  pedant's passion. His thin dark
face  had  become animated, his eyes  had lost their mocking expression and
grown almost dreamy.
     'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great
wastage  is  in the verbs  and adjectives, but  there are hundreds of nouns
that  can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also
the  antonyms.  After all, what justification  is there for a word which is
simply  the  opposite of some  oth